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Gulf Coast Update
March 10, 2006Bodies still being found Bush, lies and videotape Immigrant workers win back pay Act to extend jobless benefits
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Oakland City Council OKs card-check measure
March 10, 2006OAKLAND, Calif. — This city became the first to tell a cable company it must agree to recognize a union based on card check when the City Council late last month passed an ordinance requiring city...
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Drive to rename Chicago street for Fred Hampton
March 10, 2006CHICAGO — Moon’s Sandwich Shop is a low-key diner where residents of this Westside neighborhood can go to eat breakfast, any time of day. Most of the workers and customers are African American. The diner shares...
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Ending Iraq war is local election issue
March 10, 2006CHICAGO — They say all politics is local. Although the Iraq war policy is played out on a federal level, the war spending and lives lost come back to a local level here. Alderman Ricardo Munoz...
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Reflections on New Mexicos minimum wage fight
March 10, 2006Commentary New Mexico has just gone through two major campaigns to enact a higher minimum wage law. One was a ballot referendum in Albuquerque in November 2005. The other was to pass a bill in the...
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